Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relatives of the liberated prisoners waited long past midnight in a jammed terminal at Dulles International Airport, near Washington. Black supporters of the Rev. Jesse Jackson broke into spirited song, creating a revivalist mood. Mobs of reporters and photographers jostled for position. Finally, klieg lights flashed on and in their...
If the bill is still a live issue when the Democratic Convention meets in San Francisco on July 16, it may run into a political quagmire. Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are all on record against it; Hispanic leaders, fearful that the bill's proposed sanctions against...
In the parlance of campaign schedulers, this is "down time" for Walter Mondale, a chance to recover from one ordeal on the stump and gird for the next. With the Democratic nomination apparently in hand, Mondale loafed about his woodsy $200,000 house in North Oaks, Minn., swatted a tennis...
What does Jesse Jackson want? The question gnaws at the Democrats as they try to fathom the preacher-politician's shifting moods, sometimes contradictory rhetoric and flamboyant gestures-like his trip this week to Cuba and Central America. Interpreting Jackson has become a kind of political pastime, as compelling...
He is a bit player who will not get offstage. Minister Louis Farrakhan, the black-separatist leader of the Nation of Islam movement and a supporter of Jesse Jackson, has threatened a black newspaper reporter with death and called Hitler a "great man," albeit a "wicked" one. His latest provocation...